...In light of the 2006 elections, certain key issues evolved to the forefront of United States politics. The elections spur rapid debate about these topics as people decide who will gain their precious votes. A central issue that evolved became the problem of illegal immigration as it pertains to the United States border and more exclusively, the border of Mexico. The issue at hand is the problem of too many Mexican immigrants crossing over the United States border illegally. Immigration has been at the forefront of American politics for some time now. The issue is not only of recent concern, but of past concern as well. For most of the United States’ history, illegal immigrants have continually crossed the border into the United States. The branches of government involved in this situation is most likely all three of them. The judicial branch has no direct connection as of yet, but a court case can be seen in the future having to deal with this issue of illegal immigration. The executive and legislative branches are most directly involved by dealing with the creating of new legislation and executing it. The legislative branch has passed the necessary laws needed to deal with the illegal immigration issue such as the 700 mile fence across the border of the US and Mexico. The public officials involved with illegal immigration are numerous. The President all the way down to the small city officials cope and strategize about this issue. Cities and state official deal...
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...attempts to protect 5 million people from the threat of deportation. CNN describes Obama actions as “subverting the Constitution and behaving more like a king than a weakened president hemmed in by a hostile Congress.” On the other hand the New York Times article Obama, Daring Congress, Acts to Overhaul Immigration focuses on the positives of Obama's immigration plans for immigration reform and the attempt to prove that the acts are under constitutional laws. While it brings light on republicans opposite views and their attempts to disprove Obama's claims, the article highlights the idea of giving 5 million immigrants legal rights....
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...Kimberly Long Diversity in Hispanic Americans The first group that I researched was Cuban Americans. They rank third in the immigration of Hispanic Americans. An estimated 1.4 million strong today, they immigrated or were refuges from their native Cuba to escape Fidel Castro’s reign. They settled first in Florida and one of the largest manufactures of cigars, even to this day. They primarily speak Spanish, and most when they came here on the first wave of immigration were well educated. They were twice as likely to complete college and most held professional backgrounds. They consider themselves a generous group and full of hospitality and loath conflict, although most belonged to the communist party, here in the united states they prefer not to be a part of politics. They educated their children highly in agriculture and social economics. Unlike a lot of Hispanics, they prefer baseball to soccer. Their domestic units consist of multigenerational groups and are centered primarily on women and are of Catholic faith. They are one of the hardest groups to obtain diplomatic status due to the conflict in their home Cuba. The next group the Puerto Ricans, are of United States Territories. They also speak Spanish, but also very fluent in English. They are a Caribbean people with African, Indian and Spanish descents. Although they are a part of US territory, they cannot vote in the United States Presidential elections. They have their own constitution, even though their head...
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...Racial & Ethnic Short-Answer Questions (15) Should reparations be paid to the descendants of victims of slavery? • Some reject the decision made in the Bakke case that providing a remedy for the effects of racial discrimination is unconstitutional. They argue that the idea of reparations is rooted in international law. • Affirmative Action is inadequate, the ‘Maafa’ (meaning disaster, i.e., slavery) is a crime against humanity, and therefore compensation is required. • In the past 50 years apologies and financial compensation has been given to a wide range of groups, including survivors of the Jewish holocaust (as well as descendants of the victims), Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned during the Second World War and native Americans who had their land illegally seized in the USA. • African Americans have been demanding compensation for slavery since the end of the American Civil War. Immediately after the abolition of slavery, the demand was for 40 acres and a mule to ensure they would not be dependent on their former slave-owners. Then, between 1890 and 1917, there was a movement to lobby the government for pensions to compensate for their unpaid labour under slavery. Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers Jnr (Michigan) has introduced a bill every year to study the case for reparations. Each of these initiatives has been largely ignored by the political establishment. • Reparations would ensure full recognition of the scale of the Maafa and, at the same time...
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...History 477 (The Gilded Age) Associated professor of American studies at Yale University and author of the book called Barbarian virtues: the United States encounters foreign peoples at home and abroad, 1876-1917, Matthew Frye Jacobson, wrote about how Americans in the last part of the 19th century have actually formulated the values of being barbaric against immigrants and foreigners that are both found inside and outside the country. It is from this book that wide and open reflections can be done as to how America have been influenced enough to its formation of the immigration laws in the ways that they applied racial discriminations and superiority against other races. These attitudes of the 19th century America is considered to be the primary factors that led to the formation of the American laws regarding immigration and its country’s history. In fact, this can be the considered turning point of the American society as to how they have actually regarded themselves more powerful than the rest of the other races. This should hold true in the ways that America allowed immigrants to work in the country and thus leading to the economic boom of the country. This, in turn, allowed the creation of the Centennial Exhibition and political stability through immigrant children. Outside interaction of the Americans would apply the same concepts of the American superiority. In the discussion that follows, we consider the particular relations of the Americans to foreigners and how...
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...political stance on immigration, gun control, and gay rights. We also discuss how David Easton, Harold Lasswell, and Hans Morganthan apply to our political parties now in days. The first issue we shall deliberate on is immigration because it has been a hot topic during the debates. The Texas Senator has a website discussing his stance on this issue and what he would do to change it like building a wall to prevent illegal immigrants or terrorist from crossing over to American soil. He also wants to triple the border patrol agents to secure the wall. He has also said that he would put an end to President Obama’s amnesty by rescinding all those that he gave out. He has always been trying to strengthen our immigration system. For an instance, when he filed an amendment that would block illegal immigrants that are living in the United States from ever getting their citizenship, strengthen border security, prohibit federal, state, and local benefits from giving assistants to undocumented immigrants. In an article from the U.S. News Cruz stated that: The amendments filed today to strengthen border security and reform our legal immigration system will not only bring meaningful, effective improvements to our immigration system, but also have a chance of becoming law. America is a nation of immigrants, built by immigrants and we need to honor that heritage by fixing our broken immigration system, while upholding the rule of law and championing legal immigration. (Metlzer) I believe...
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...Hispanic Immigrants and Politics Ulyses Rivera 02/13/2015 Hispanic Immigrants and Politics Why does our government treat Hispanic immigrants like if they were individuals who don’t deserve to be part of the American society? We are all make of the same flesh and genetic material and everybody deserve to be treated with respect. The unique differences of each human being are what separate us from each other. Every single person plays an important role in our society. The wellbeing of the Hispanic immigrants in the United States is in the hands of our two political party’s Republicans and Democrats who can’t agree on anything because they think these people don’t deserve to be treated as human beings. Jackie Calmes, wrote an article in the New York Times on November of 2014 about Hispanic Immigrants and our politics. The Republican Party was represented by Mitt Romney argued that Latinos who are here illegally needed to go back to their native countries. His argument was that they broke the laws and they don’t deserve to stay in the United States taking advantage of the American system and not contributing to the American economy. The President Barack Obama was proposing an amnesty to solve the illegal immigration problem in the U.S. The proposal did not go very far because the Republican Party voted against it. Mo Brooks, a Republican of Alabama failed proposal to extend citizenship to “so-called Dreamers – Latinos who were brought into the United Stated illegally...
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...Americans believe that this is true, but would these jobs just go to waste if these immigrants did not take them? So many Americans think that illegal immigrants just come to America to take jobs from us, but really these illegal immigrants do more good than bad for our country. Why do illegal immigrants try to come to America in the first place? America has always been known as the land of the free, the land of opportunity. Illegal immigrants see this as a way to live a happier and a more successful life. According to Iowa senator, Dave Edwards, “The immigration system in this country is broken. It is estimated there are currently more than 12 million persons residing in the US illegally” (Edwards). All of these immigrants come to America to have a better life for their families and themselves. They work hard so that they can have a better future. So yes, the system may be broken but it could be a good thing that it is like this, not only for the immigrants but for Americans, as well. Illegal immigrants are normally paid more in America than they would be paid in Mexico, although they are at the bottom, and the lowest paid in this country. “Because of their low wages, they are forced to live in low-rent housing under sub-standard living conditions and because of their immigration status, they feel they do not have the freedom to report these conditions” (Edwards). They live in fear of deportation every day so they stay quiet about how they are treated while they are here. They...
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...Earl Warren was a Supreme Court judge who was a republican and became more liberal with time. He influenced America's political development with various liberal Supreme Court decisions as Chief Justice. Such as in Gideon v. Wainwright, which ruled that the state's are required to "provide counsel in criminal cases to represent defendants who are unable to afford to pay their own attorneys" under the 6th amendment. He also heavily influenced America with his decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In the Brown case the court decision established that its unconstitutional to have separate schools for black and white students. In Miranda v. Arizona, Warren's decision made a defendants statement only admissible in court if they'd been...
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...Migration Dilara Sönmez Middle East Technical University Department of International Relations, #1541077 ABSTRACT National and international security has gained new meanings and elements in recent years, especially after Cold War. The changed concept of security has been more and more broadened with accelerated effects of globalization and shocking September 11 events. The new issues of security agenda may be listed as immigration, global terror, climate change, energy, internal violence, human security etc. This article recovers mainly how irregular migration effects national and human security in a multi dimensional framework, from theories to the cases under several sections of the paper. Firstly, the definition and types; secondly motivations of immigration are outlined with a historical and theoretical briefs. Then the general perception on migration and motivations of migration will be connected more specific sections that are, in sequence, international lenses on migration regarding state and public securities and more specifically, the lenses of the US and European Union on migration. The conclusion part put my arguments as done during article that are both agreed and disagreed with the mainstream theories and the opinions of expert that are stated in the article. Definitions and Types of Migration The term of migration has several definitions that give almost similar meanings. Generally, in social science literature, Migration is the movement of an individual or...
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...Colton Dahlem Professor Jordan English 110/1522 December 5, 2012 Rough Draft Legal is the New Illegal What do you think of when you read ‘Immigration’? My thought of the definition of immigration is that people of other countries wanting a better life for themselves and/or their family and they think they can find that certain life in the United States. All they have to do is fill out paper work and pay fees that they can later pay off because they will have jobs because they became a US citizen. Some immigrants do not quite understand that concept and that is where we get the problem of illegal immigration. It is great that they want better lives but when they do it illegally is where they literally cross the line. Illegal immigration comes with certain causes, problems, and solutions. It is not easy to determine that causes of illegal immigration but according to the article “Illegal Immigration”, there are two main factors that make immigrants have the desire to join the United States. The first major factor is the “push” factor, which involves the pressures encouraging emigration in countries of origin. There are also four sub-factors that give those immigrants the actual push. The first is the professional factor that deals with jobs, money, and certain opportunities that the United States offer that their home does not. Second is the political factor, which is their opinion on our government vs. their government. The security factor is the third, which involves...
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...| Immigration Reform | Why it should be Approved | IMMIGRATION REFORM Immigration, the popular government topic we hear about every day, and are not nearly close to resolving. Immigration, immigration reform, amnesty, Dream Act, and the “Dreamers” are all popular news topics these days. Immigration reform should be the path way to citizenship for all illegal immigrants, providing work permits, helping stimulate money for the economy and help keep families together. Provding work permits in the US for illegal immigrants is a great benefit to them. In August of 2012 President Obama’s administration approved the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “As of May 31, 2013, USCIS has accepted about 520,000 DACA applications. They have approved a little over 365,000 and denied 3,816 applications.” (Leiva, 2013) This was a major accomplishment for the Dreamers who in 2001 introduced the DREAM Act and was denied in several occasions. Although DACA is a temporary solution to immigration reform it’s a great step forward. The majority of the applicants are college graduates with Associates and Bachelor’s degrees who until now weren’t able to work in their graduate field. Even though some states have opposed President Obama’s order for DACA with restricting approved applicants with not being able to have a driver’s license they have overcome it with other means or moving to a DACA friendly state. Immigrants who got approved under the age of 30 are able to work legally...
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...After the Civil War, industrialization spread to North America and the increasing number of factories transformed the United States from an agricultural to an urban nation, causing dramatic shift in the society, economy, and politics of the country. American industrialization impacted immigration, urbanization, and the growth of big businesses. The increasing number of factories created a higher labor demand. Immigrants, mainly from Europe and China, settled in the U.S. to take advantage of the work opportunities. In response to the factory worker demand, “America experienced an immigration boom, ‘the Great Wave,’ during which immigration averaged 600,000 annually… primarily by European immigrants; particularly, in its second half, with immigrants from southern and eastern Europe” (Progressives for Immigration Reform, 2012-2014). Immigrants were attracted by the idea of being able to support their families, which was an opportunity lacking in their home countries. However, Americans, despite the cheap labor, became overwhelmed with the cultural differences and competition for unskilled workers the immigrants brought to the country. Therefore, the government was forced to take action by enforcing policies that restricted immigration, such as the Immigration Act of 1882. In addition to immigrants increasing American population, they also contributed to the growth of urbanization. Immigrants and the working class of...
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...which is the terms of immigration. And there are not many of economically developed countries, which pulls high number of immigrants and takes actual high percentages in immigrant statistics. In present time, this immigration experience assumes as the constant affairs of American life. Because the views of people from other countries are America as the land of full opportunities for their better life no matter that they are coming in America legally or illegally. Juan Gonzales the author of the book titled, Harvest of Empire, criticized and analyzed this view by focusing on the Latino population of immigration and how the America’s foreign policies influences toward it. In his work, Juan Gonzales tries to overviewing how the Latino immigrants started to move in American historically and he also provides an analysis of the current events that showing the effects and frictions on Latino population thereby America’s politics and diplomacy. During reading Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzales, I thought a lot of time that this book is for all people who want to know about the history of Latino immigration in America in detail. Because Gonzalez delivers Latino’s historical processes of movement and settlement through all over the time periods from past to present day and divides his book into three parts as “Roots”, “Branches” and “Harvest” to give more information in details and help the reader for better understanding. The first part of the book “Roots” tells us only about the historical...
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...Illegal immigration is a destructive act that benefits no one in the United States. If America continues to worry about other countries before itself, it has no chance of improving itself and becoming a better country. Some say it has no effect on the country's economic and social status, but in fact it does significantly. The security of America’s borders would also make the country much safer from harmful terrorists, gangs, and drugs that make their way into the country inconspicuously. Without illegal immigrants in the country Americans would also be able to better enjoy the privileges like education and other social services provided by the taxpayers through the government. With a stop to illegal immigration it opens the door for many great...
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